{"id":4249,"date":"2023-01-23T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2025-03-26T22:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T17:16:16","slug":"haiderpur-wetland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/haiderpur-wetland\/","title":{"rendered":"Haiderpur wetland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Haiderpur wetland:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>human-made wetland<\/strong> that was <strong>formed in 1984<\/strong> <strong>by the construction of the Madhya Ganga Barrage <\/strong>on a floodplain of the River Ganga.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: <strong>Muzaffarnagar-Bijnor border in Uttar Pradesh.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is l<strong>ocated within the boundaries of Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>This provides habitat for various animal and plant species, including around <strong>30 species of plants<\/strong>, <strong>300 species of birds (102 waterbirds)<\/strong>, 40 fish and more than ten mammal species.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It <strong>supports more than 15 globally threatened species<\/strong>, such as the <strong>critically endangered gharial<\/strong> and the <strong>endangered hog deer , black-bellied tern, steppe eagle , Indian skimmer and gold mahseer.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been recognised as the <strong>47th Ramsar site of India in 2021.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Ramsar Convention (Convention on Wetlands of International Importance ):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an <strong>intergovernmental treaty<\/strong> that provides the framework <strong>for the conservation and wise use of wetlands and their resources.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Convention was <strong>adopted in the Iranian city of Ramsar in 1971<\/strong> and came into force in 1975.<\/li>\n<li>It is the <strong>only global treaty that focuses specifically on wetlands<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>One key instrument of the Convention is its <strong>List of Wetlands of International Importance<\/strong> (the \u201c<strong>Ramsar List<\/strong>\u201d).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0Where is Hastinapur Wildlife Sanctuary?<\/h3>\n<p>The Hastinapur Wild Life Sanctuary, lies alongside the Northern tip of the River Ganga, flowing thru the districts of Muzzafarnagar and Bijnore in Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/govt-steps-in-to-stop-haiderpur-wetland-s-dewatering-101674412169330.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Govt steps in to stop Haiderpur wetland\u2019s dewatering<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiderpur wetland  is a human-made wetland that was formed in 1984 by the construction of the Madhya Ganga Barrage on a floodplain of the River Ganga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4250,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4249","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}